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Foreword: Hand Management in Physical Therapy

R Lamb, PhD, PT, is Chairman, Department of Physical Therapy, School of Allied Health Professions, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, PO Box 224, MCV Station, Richmond, VA 23298-0024.
C Moran, MS, PT, is Director of The Richmond Upper Extremity Center, 7113 Three Chopt Rd, Ste 203, Richmond, VA 23226; and Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, School of Allied Health Professions, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor, Program in Physical Therapy, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23508.
T Mayhew, MS, PT, is Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, School of Allied Health Professions, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University.

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In recent years, physical therapists have recognized that with their background in basic science and exercise, they can contribute to the management of hand problems. This awareness has led to an effort both by occupational therapists and by physical therapists to form a combined specialty area in hand rehabilitation. Subsequently, hand centers have been created for the specialized care of patients with hand and upper extremity problems.

Physical therapists who do not specialize in hand care, however, continue to treat hand problems. This issue of Physical Therapy provides current information from experts in hand management. The intent of this special issue is not to cover all the aspects of hand management, but to emphasize the areas most commonly dealt with by therapists outside of hand clinics.

The first three articles, by Moran, Hardy, and Bear-Lehman and Abreu, are reviews of the anatomy, wound healing, and evaluation of the hand....

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